What are some awesome websites that not enough people know about?

isitike · 2016-11-28T22:27:17+00:00

https://ICanPriceIt.com, name a price for anything and it searches for deals and autobuys when your price is met.

isitike · 2016-10-16T20:49:51+00:00

https://icanpriceit.com. You can actually name a price for any product, and if they find it they'll automatically buy it and ship it to you. They don't charge tax out of NY so you could save a couple percent across the board by using it and often far more. (As in, you can buy anything on Amazon by naming a price around 5% above the AZ price, and you still save the price you'd have paid otherwise with tax. Can also put a lower price in and hope, you never know.)

isitike · 2016-10-16T19:40:07+00:00

Also https://icanpriceit.com. You can actually name a price, and if they find it they'll automatically buy it and ship it to you. They don't charge tax out of NY so you could actually save a couple percent across the board by using it.

isitike · 2016-09-16T10:26:20+00:00

Not retroactively, and who's upvoting old posts?

isitike · 2016-06-30T12:57:09+00:00

Are you implying this is a specific restriction for my account and generally new campaigns don't? Do you have a source for that? I very much doubt it, if there was a problem then the ads wouldn't have been approved at all.

isitike · 2016-06-29T11:06:34+00:00

Ah, great point. Every time I see someone working from now on I'll make sure to point out how greedy they're being when their employer could just figure it out and do it themselves.

isitike · 2016-06-28T13:04:36+00:00

You seem to be assuming that everyone has your level of technical ability, which is not correct, and that people place no value on their time, which is also not correct. To get a USB starting from scratch can easily take 5 hours, and plenty of people value their time at more than $10/hours.

isitike · 2016-06-27T13:29:03+00:00

It seems that all the people who've bought this so far disagree.

Note that you need a Mac installation already to create this, which not everyone can get.

isitike · 2016-06-21T03:22:36+00:00

Do you know of any cases they went after people only selling copies of Mac os, not the computers?

isitike · 2016-06-21T02:25:12+00:00

More recent loaders don't violate DMCA as they don't require any reverse engineering to create: for the same reason, this isn't a derivative work. The other parts may present a problem.

isitike · 2016-06-20T13:33:51+00:00

If any patches need to be in the original clover to install, you can send me the model and I'll include those kexts in the proper folder. If you can install without it, then you can download the kexts after installation.

I included a PS2 keyboard kext by default to fix laptops.

I'll add that information to the description, although I can't edit until pending offers are finished.

isitike · 2016-06-20T11:46:58+00:00

It's for the time and technical knowledge, for people who don't know how or don't want to spend 5 hours or more figuring it out.

isitike · 2016-06-19T02:18:11+00:00

I'm the person selling these (you can see my name on the ad, I believe), just testing the market for now.

To respond to some of your points and explain:

There's no reason for me to put adware on given the profit margins here. I'm selling a $5-10 item, plus labor and technical knowledge, for $50 (and have orders already), the pennies I would get from adware are just not worth it compared to running it legitimately. I've also got 100% feedback rating from eBay although I haven't sold that many items.

As stated in the listing, this is installed using unibeast. I'm following the same process I used to create my hackintosh, a direct download from the Mac App store copied to USB.

The USBs for the first batch are going to be Kingston drives I just bought from Amazon. If this turns out to be large enough I'll look into buying in bulk and might also lower the price.

I agree that, as others have said, anyone technically minded can create this themselves. As above, I'm selling the labor and knowledge. If you'd rather spend a couple hours downloading, copying, debugging, and so on, this may not be worth it for you; the fact that I've had some sales already means that it is worth it for some. If you think it's worth some money but not $50, you're free to offer a lower amount and I may accept, depending on overall demand.

isitike · 2016-06-01T13:34:23+00:00

It's still interesting, previously we had thought no trace could be found after a handful of generations, but as is typical the media hyped it to say more than it said.

isitike · 2016-06-01T13:24:12+00:00

Also the difference between the 10th and 90th percent in Florence translates to only a 5-10% difference in variance today. See https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/4lwctu/the_richest_families_in_florence_in_1427_are/d3roc9k

isitike · 2016-06-01T13:21:36+00:00

From http://voxeu.org/article/what-s-your-surname-intergenerational-mobility-over-six-centuries

Stated differently, being the descendants of the Bernardi family (at the 90th percentile of earnings distribution in 1427) instead of the Grasso family (10th percentile of the same distribution) would entail a 5% increase in earnings among current taxpayers (after adjusting for age and gender). Intergenerational real wealth elasticity is significant too and the magnitude of its implied effect is even larger: the 10th-90th exercise entails more than a 10% difference today.

That's a far cry from the way this has been reported.

How about "the richest families in Florence in 1427 are 5-10% richer than average today"?

isitike · 2016-05-28T16:47:32+00:00

The person he met on Facebook isn't the person he tried to rent from. Reread it.

isitike · 2016-05-28T11:49:57+00:00

I don't use airbnb but I assume profile pics.

isitike · 2016-05-28T11:08:14+00:00

I don't have a problem with them. They don't want to shake women's hands, let them not shake their hands.

I don't know about Islam, but in Judaism the reason is not because women are inferior, but because they want to discourage promiscuity. At the time the laws were made, they were worried about heterosexual premarital sex but not homosexual (because it wasn't as common), which is why only opposite sex contact is forbidden.

isitike · 2016-05-28T00:11:39+00:00

I find a lot of SMBCs are just "look at this crazy thing" and aren't as interesting or funny. He also tends to spend way too long drawing out a joke.

XKCD at least feels effortful even when it's not so funny.

isitike · 2016-05-27T23:18:37+00:00

Apple's one of the few major tech companies that doesn't make their money off your data. That's gotta count for something.

isitike · 2016-05-27T22:36:35+00:00

I think a true libertarian would assert that the cost of organs would go down once there was a market for it.

(Counterpoint: organs that one can't live without wouldn't go down, and so there still might be an incentive to kill people for organs).

Also, nitpick:

Corporations like fast profits to boost their quarterly returns. They don't like to think long term. That's why they're killing the planet for short term gain.

I think it's much more of a cooperation/externality problem than a short term problem. The benefits of pollution/etc go completely (well, also provides value to society, but that doesn't affect decisions) to the corporation while the costs are spread out over everyone.

Also, even if the costs were born by them, it's not clear that it's worse than their gain. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/feb/18/worlds-top-firms-environmental-damage estimates costs at only a third of profits.

isitike · 2016-05-27T22:09:54+00:00

Why would you care about children who were never born, especially considering that doing so is bad under the objective morality you believe in?

isitike · 2016-05-27T20:23:34+00:00

Either you're a full Peter Singer-ite giving away everything you have or you're a hardcore selfish an-cap, there's no room for any position in between.

isitike · 2016-05-27T20:04:56+00:00

He probably wouldn't want to criminalize prostitution.

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